Hide/Isolate button to control printing

[patricks]

I think the Hide/Isolate tool should hide or isolate objects when printing, and not just hide or isolate them in the view on the screen.

This would be helpful for say, if you're using floors for sidewalks and parking areas around a building, but you want them to show only in the site plan and not in the floor plan. Right now I have to resort to enabling worksets just to be able to not have floors used around the exterior of the building to not print in the floor plan view.

[iru69]

I'm all for the wish, and you should be able to use the Hide/Isolate tool however you want - but that seems to be a work-around, not a long-term solution to the problem.

I use the Hide/Isolate tool (as I think it was intended) to temporarily hide objects and categories while working on the model (i.e. temporarily hide a roof so I can edit the wall beneath it). It could get quite tedious if I also had to use it for more "permanent" view settings and then had to reset and set it up all over again.

This just seems to get back to the often stated need for more acute category assignments, etc, e.g. being able to assign a sidewalk to the sub-category of "sidewalk" and then turn on and off the visibility of the subcategory.

None the less, the wish seems like an okay temporary fix.

[patricks]

oh yes that is true... I think I had mentioned that some time ago, allowing users to add subcategories to system families (walls, floors, etc). I think having the Hide/Isolate function as I described would be useful for temporary purposes when printing a view, like if you wanted to show some certain object to a client, you might have to create a whole new level or view or whatever, but if you could just use the hide/isolate to hide certain elements and then print it, it would keep you from having to make all those extra temporary views. Sometimes those things get left in the project and it really makes things messy and confusing.

But yeah I would like to see the subcategories thing, too. :)

[iru69]

That makes a lot of sense in it's own right.


I think having the Hide/Isolate function as I described would be useful for temporary purposes when printing a view, like if you wanted to show some certain object to a client, you might have to create a whole new level or view or whatever, but if you could just use the hide/isolate to hide certain elements and then print it, it would keep you from having to make all those extra temporary views. Sometimes those things get left in the project and it really makes things messy and confusing.